History
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August 14, 2023
Heritage Project — How the net was won
Douglas Van Houweling and Eric Aupperle led a group that submitted a proposal to the National Science Foundation to upgrade the agency’s overloaded computing backbone.
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July 24, 2023
Heritage Project — A cabin in the woods
For more than a century, U-M students have been leaving their mark on the gray metal cabins at the U-M Biological Station.
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June 19, 2023
Heritage Project — How the Michigan Union came to be
Today people say the name Michigan Union and think only of the building. The building is the physical remnant of that early-1900s movement to forge a new ethos for the “Michigan Man.”
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June 5, 2023
Heritage Project — Michigan in the making
From the first painting of U-M’s rural campus by Jasper Cropsey in 1855 to Richard Rummell’s work in 1907 depicting a bustling landscape, U-M’s campus had become a new kind of enterprise entirely.
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May 22, 2023
Heritage Project — Kelly Johnson to the rescue
The U.S. Army Air Force wanted Clarence “Kelly” Johnson to build a top-secret jet plane that would need to fly more than 500 miles per hour to combat a new Nazi fighter.
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May 1, 2023
Heritage Project — The War of 1817
People were vaguely aware that 1837 was the year associated with the university’s birth, although there had been some small, failed experiment with a territorial college in Detroit way back when. A new seal for U-M was designed in the 1890s that featured the year 1837. With that, the lawyerly mind of Frank Culver saw red.
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April 24, 2023
ROTC students learn the realities of D-Day where it happened
Stepping out of the classroom and onto the beaches of Normandy, France, ROTC cadets and midshipmen from U-M embarked on a journey recently to process the reality of World War II’s D-Day.
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April 24, 2023
Heritage Project — Professor Porta’s predictions
Professor Albert F. Porta predicted that on Dec. 17, 1919, “the most terrific weather cataclysm experienced since human history” would begin.
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April 17, 2023
Heritage Project — Angell, China and opium
During a grand dinner in 1910 celebrating James Burrill Angell’s nearly 40-year tenure as U-M’s president, Angell touted among his accomplishments the treaty he negotiated with China regarding opium.
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April 10, 2023
Heritage Project — Such horrible business
Early one morning just before Christmas 1857, men arriving for work on the construction of a church found heaps of fresh earth next to empty graves in a little graveyard.
